Liu Weiping (; born May 1953) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Vice President of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

. He served as Governor of Gansu from 2010 to 2016, and prior to that, Vice-Governor of

Qinghai Qinghai is an inland Provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. It is the largest provinces of China, province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xin ...

Province and mayor of

Nanchang Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi, China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east by Poyang Lake. Because of its strate ...

Career

Aeronautical industry

Liu Weiping is a native of Fujin,

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Us ...

province. He entered the work force in 1968 as a sent-down youth in Nanchang County,

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province, and in 1970 started working at the Hongdu Machinery Building Factory (now Hongdu Aviation Industry Group) under the then Ministry of Aerospace Industry. In 1972 Liu Weiping enrolled at the Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics (now Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) in

Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...

, studying aircraft design. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

in January 1974. After college he returned to the Hongdu Machinery Building Factory in 1976, working for its design institute.

Government

In 1986 Liu was transferred to the provincial government of Jiangxi, working under then Jiangxi governor Wu Guanzheng, and then rising through the ranks to become Mayor of

, the provincial capital, in 1995. From 1998 to 2001 he was trained in the part-time postgraduate program of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, where he obtained a master's degree in Economics. In July 2001 Liu Weiping was transferred to distant

province to become its Vice-Governor, then in May 2003, Liu was named secretary-general of the Qinghai party committee, reporting to then provincial party chief

Zhao Leji Zhao Leji (born 8 March 1958) is a Chinese politician who is the current chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In his ...

; he was then elevated to

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in August 2004. In December 2006 he was transferred again to the same position in neighbouring

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

province. In July 2010 Liu was appointed Acting Governor of Gansu, and on 18 January 2011 he was elected Governor by the Gansu Provincial Congress. In January 2013 Liu was reelected Governor of Gansu. In April 2016, Liu was transferred to become the Vice President of the

(minister-level). Such a transfer was considered unusual as Liu had not yet reached the mandated retirement age for active provincial-ministerial officials at 65; moreover, Liu was moved from a position of power in government to a deputy academic position, the only such case since the 18th Party Congress, raising the eyebrows of some political observers. Liu was an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee, and a full member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Weiping Living people 1953 births Governors of Gansu Chinese Communist Party politicians from Heilongjiang People's Republic of China politicians from Heilongjiang Political office-holders in Jiangxi Political office-holders in Qinghai People from Jiamusi Chinese aerospace engineers Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni Engineers from Heilongjiang